On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM Jos de Kloe <josdekloe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > as suggested on this Directory_Replacement page I tried to solve this > > problem by adding a little lua scriptlet. > > Unfortunately it seems not to work for me so I must be missing some > > details here. > > You aren't missing anything. The scriptlet doesn't work, as the > transaction is checked by dnf before rpm scriptlets even happen. The > best workaround is to just _not_ change directories to symlinks or > vice versa. How to actually do that depends on the package, though. > Given the recent Change Proposal to hard-link duplicate files, maybe > the simplest option is to just make the symlinks into duplicate > directory copies. > > I don't know why that documentation page still exists; I've never been > able to get it to work as documented, and it's been that way for a > long time: > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/1139 As I understand it, some behaviour of dnf changed a few years ago, which made the approach documented in the Packaging Guidelines ("Directory_Replacement" page) no longer work. So there's currently no really good / documented way to handle this case. (And we should remove the docs for things that no longer work, I agree.) Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
